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<h1 align="center">DarkIce</h1>

<h2>1. What Is DarkIce?</h2>
DarkIce is a live audio streamer. It records audio from an audio interface
(e.g. sound card), encodes it and sends it to a streaming server.
<br>
DarkIce can record from:
<ul>
    <li><a href="http://www.opensound.com/">OSS</a> audio devices</li>
    <li><a href="http://www.alsa-project.org/">ALSA</a> audio devices</li>
    <li>Solaris audio interface</li>
    <li><a href="http://jackit.sourceforge.net/">Jack</a> sources</li>
    <li>uLaw audio input through a serial interface</li>
    <li>CoreAudio (branch darkice-macosx)</li>
</ul>
<br>
DarkIce can encode in the following formats:
<ul>
    <li>MP3 - using the <a href="http://lame.sourceforge.net/">lame</a>
        library</li>
    <li>MP2 - using the <a href="http://www.twolame.org/">twolame</a>
        library</li>
    <li><a href="http://www.xiph.org/ogg/vorbis/">Ogg Vorbis</a></li>
    <li>AAC - using the <a href="http://www.audiocoding.com/">faac</a>
        library</li>
    <li>AAC HEv2 - using <a href="http://tipok.org.ua/node/17">libaacplus</a> library </li>
</ul>
<br>
DarkIce can send the encoded stream to the following streaming servers:
<ul>
    <li><a href="http://www.shoutcast.com/">ShoutCast</a></li>
    <li><a href="http://www.icecast.org/">IceCast</a> 1.3.x and 2.x</li>
    <li><a href="http://developer.apple.com/darwin/projects/streaming/">Darwin
         Streaming Server</a></li>
    <li>archive the encoded audio in files</li>
</ul>
<br>
Darkice runs on the following operating systems:
<ul>
    <li>FreeBSD</li>
    <li>Linux on intel and PowerPC</li>
    <li>MacOS X</li>
    <li>NetBSD / OpenBSD</li>
    <li>SUN Solaris</li>
</ul>
<br>
DarkIce initial author is 
<a href="mailto:darkeye@users.sourceforge.net">&Aacute;kos Mar&oacute;y</a>
<br>
DarkIce current author and maintainer is <a href="mailto:rafael@riseup.net">Rafael Diniz. </a>
<br>
<h2>2. Status</h2>
DarkIce is considered stable, it has been used since fall 2000 in production 24 hours per day.
<br>
The latest version is <b>1.0</b>, check out the
<a href="ChangeLog">ChangeLog</a>.
<br>
There is a GTK frontend made by Rafael Diniz, called DarkSnow.
<a href="http://darksnow.radiolivre.org/index.en.html">DarkSnow</a>.

<h2>3. Discussion</h2>
For questions &amp; feedback on DarkIce, please join the
<a href="http://www.freelists.org/list/darkice">darkice-list</a>
mailing list.
<p>
Should you find any issues with DarkIce, please submit a bug or feature
request at our <a href="http://code.google.com/p/darkice/issues/list">Trac</a> system.

<h2>4. Support</h2>
If you feel that DarkIce is having a good effect on your online streaming radio, feel free to donate some money to allow further development. 
<b>Thank you!</b>

<h2>5. Download</h2>
DarkIce is
&copy; Copyright <a href="http://tyrell.hu">Tyrell Hungary</a> and Rafael Diniz and &Aacute;kos Mar&oacute;y
 under the
<a href="http://www.gnu.org/copyleft/gpl.html">GNU General Public Licence version 3</a>.
<br>
You can download DarkIce releases from the project's
<a href="http://code.google.com/p/darkice/">download page</a>.
<p>
Download the source tarball
    <a href="http://darkice.googlecode.com/files/darkice-1.0.tar.gz">darkice-1.0.tar.gz</a>
    and compile it. You will also need
    <a href="http://lame.sourceforge.net/download/download.html">lame</a>
    (version 3.89 or above),
    <a href="http://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=136040">twolame</a>
    (version 0.3.6 or above),
    <a href="http://www.vorbis.com/download.psp">Ogg Vorbis</a>
    and
    <a href="http://www.audiocoding.com/modules/mydownloads/">faac</a>
    libs. I used the following libs:
    <ul>
        <li><a href="http://prdownloads.sourceforge.net/lame/lame-3.96.1.tar.gz?download">lame-3.96.1.tar.gz</a></li>
        <li><a href="http://prdownloads.sourceforge.net/twolame/twolame-0.3.6.tar.gz?download">twolame-0.3.6.tar.gz</a></li>
        <li><a href="http://downloads.xiph.org/releases/ogg/libogg-1.1.2.tar.gz">libogg-1.1.2.tar.gz</a></li>
        <li><a href="http://downloads.xiph.org/releases/vorbis/libvorbis-1.1.0.tar.gz">libvorbis-1.1.0.tar.gz</a></li>
        <li><a href="http://prdownloads.sourceforge.net/faac/faac-1.24.zip?download">faac-1.24.zip</a></li>
    </ul>
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If you like to live on the edge, you can check the
<a href="http://subversion.tigris.org/">subversion</a> repository: 
svn checkout http://darkice.googlecode.com/svn/darkice/trunk/ darkice
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This page last updated: $Date: 2010-05-12 20:58:05 +0000 (Wed, 12 May 2010) $.
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